A decade of awards, and counting

Winner 2017: Best Personal Loan Provider and Best Alternative Finance Provider

Zopa won both the best personal loan provider and best alternative finance provider categories at the 2017 British Bank Awards. The awards, which help UK consumers to find the very best financial products and providers in the market, are given on the basis of a consumer survey run by Smart Money People.

Commenting on the award, Jaidev Janardana, Zopa's CEO, said, "These awards are a testament to our customer-centric approach to building products and the better value we provide consumers."

Winner 2017: Personal Loan Provider of the Year

Once again Zopa took home the Consumer Moneyfacts Personal Loan Provider of the Year award, beating off competition from the likes of Hitachi and Sainsbury's Bank. This is the fourth year in a row that we've won this award, and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who voted for us in the consumer survey.

Winner 2016: Best Clarity of Data

Zopa also took home the Best Clarity of Data trophy from the 2016 AltFi awards. This was awarded to the platform exhibiting the highest standards of clarity in the data it shares with the industry and customers.

Ranked 2016: 36th

Zopa was ranked 36th in 2016's Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a list of Britain's 100 private tech companies with the fastest-growing sales over the latest three years.

This is the third year in a row that we’ve made the list. We debuted at 79th in 2014 and climbed to 41st in 2015.

Shortlisted 2016: Amazon Digital Business of the Year

Zopa has been shortlisted for the 'Amazon Digital Business of the Year' award. Zopa has been recognised for optimising all aspects of our digital platform to achieve growth and strong financial performance through exceptional customer experience.

Winner 2016: Most Trusted P2P Platform

Zopa scooped the 'Most Trusted P2P Platform' gong at the Moneywise Customer Service Awards. This was awarded on the basis of a Moneywise survey, so we were thrilled to receive this endorsement from our customers.

Winner 2016: Personal Loan Provider of the Year

Once again Zopa took home the Consumer Moneyfacts Personal Loan Provider of the Year award, beating off competition from the likes of Sainsbury's Bank and Hitachi. This is the third year in a row that we've won this award, and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who voted for us in the consumer survey.

We also came highly commended in the Peer-to-Peer Provider of the Year category, and commended for the overall Best Customer Service award.

Ranked 2015: 35th

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 celebrates innovation and entrepreneurship, ranking the country's 50 fastest growing technology companies based on the revenue growth over the last four years. Zopa was ranked 35th with a growth rate of 417%.

Winner 2015: People's Choice

Zopa was pleased to take home two titles from the 2015 AltFi awards. Our second was the People's Choice, which is a particularly special award as it was voted for by AltFi readers. Over 5,000 people took part in the voting, and we were delighted to claim top spot.

Winner 2015: Most Trusted Loan Provider

For the sixth consecutive year, Zopa has won Moneywise's 'Most Trusted Loan Provider' award. We are particularly proud of this as it is voted for by the public in Moneywise's consumer survey.

Zopa CEO Giles Andrews said, "Being named Most Trusted Loan Provider for the sixth year running is a fantastic reflection of the outstanding service we provide. We'd like to thank all our customers who voted for us as this is testament to the whole Zopa team in providing excellent customer service and products."

Winner 2015: Best Customer Service

For the second year in a row, Zopa won the Consumer Moneyfacts 'Best Customer Service' award. This was for best customer service across the whole personal finance industry, based on the opinions of over 70,000 consumers who voted in the Moneyfacts survey. Giles Andrew, CEO of Zopa, said, 'Winning the Best Customer Service Award across the whole financial services industry reinforces the fact that we are doing things right and making sure our customers are happy, which is an even bigger achievement.'

Winner 2014: VC Backed Business of the Year

Zopa is also honoured to have been named "VC Backed Business of the Year" in the Private Business Awards 2014. Our Sales Director Jonathan and Chief Data Scientist Didier were on hand to collect the award. Other notable finalists included music identification app Shazam.

Winner 2014: Best Peer to Peer Provider

Zopa is proud to have been named the "Best Peer to Peer Provider" in the Your Money 2014 Awards. The prestigious awards now in their 17th year recognise the best financial service products on offer to consumers. Judging is based on competitiveness of price and structure with each company then mystery shopped by real consumers to benchmark the quality of each platform, meaning that real customers voted Zopa the best overall peer-to-peer lender based on their experience.

Winner 2014: Most Trusted Loan Provider

Zopa has proudly won this award, back-to-back, five years in a row. Giles, CEO and Co-founder had this to say: "Additional proof that Zopa has an excellent customer service record. We are truly grateful for everyone who voted for us as this award means a lot to me and the whole of Zopa. As the UK's leading peer-to-peer lending service we are working hard to provide a real alternative to banks for consumers and offer a better way to borrow and lend money."

Winner 2014: Personal Loan Provider of the Year

This is our first Consumer Moneyfacts Award and we are very proud to named "Personal Loan Provider of the Year", beating off competition from the major banks. As the only peer-to-peer lender in the shortlist, this is a fantastic achievement for Zopa and highlights that we are offering borrowers a better deal. This award is very special to us as Moneyfacts combine feedback from customer surveys from almost 80,000 along with the specialists to help pick the winners, meaning that winning is only possible if our customers support and believe in our services.

Winner 2014: Best Peer to Peer Lender

We are delighted to announce that Zopa has been awarded "Best Peer to Peer Lender" in the 2014 Moneynet Personal Finance Awards. The three key reasons why Zopa came out top in this category were because of our transparent and easy to understand products, having lower borrowing rates than our competitors and no hidden fees for over payments or early settlement. A huge thanks to the Moneynet team for this award and we look forward to trying to make it back to back wins for next year.

Winner 2013: Most Trusted Personal Loan Provider

This is the fourth year running we have won this award, and even more amazing, they have been back-to-back wins: 2010, 2011, 2012 and now 2013. Thanks loads to everyone who voted! See more on our Moneywise blog post.

Winner 2011: Most Trusted Personal Loan Provider

For the second year running, we were voted 'Most Trusted' by our borrowers and we feel absolutely honoured. Thanks to all our wonderful members who voted in the largest UK survey of its kind (12,000 respondents!), we can boast to have beaten the likes of First Direct and Tesco Bank once again - and look forward to keeping up the good work!

Winner 2010: Open Business Award

The Open 100 competition was born out of NESTA's search for the world's top 100 open innovation companies, celebrating the power of openness and mass collaboration. We were up against some bit hitters including the BBC, BT, and eBay so we're rather chuffed to have won the business category.

Nominated: Best Newcomer

OK, so we didn't win this one, but coming second to Twitter doesn't seem like bad news either! These awards were created to recognise and reward the calculated risk-takers who stand out for their vision and leadership.

Winner 2008: Most Threatening Non-bank Competitor

The awards are designed "to recognize excellence and achievement in retail banking globally." In winning the award, Zopa edged out an impressive list of runners-up including PayPal, Wal-Mart, Vodafone and Prosper.

Winner 2007: Best Internet Project

Neil Taylor, The Banker - "What really impressed the judges was Zopa's switch from 'non-commercial' to 'regulated' credit agreements in June 2006. By using new technology Zopa was able to deliver an unmatched level of real time service bringing borrowers and lenders together in a very robust risk-management environment."

Winner 2006: 5 Star Product of the Month (August)

"No bank in the middle, no huge overheads, no unethical investments - Zopa could permanently change the way people save and invest money."

Winner 2006: One of the top 100 private European internet services

"Zopa is one of a new crop of sites that facilitate lending between individuals, doing an end run around traditional banks.....The job is to build trust, essential in handling other people's money but never easy to establish in new markets. Among other things, it requires implementing good security and risk assessment tools, which typically raise the barriers to entry in this market. And Zopa, at least, has crossed those barriers in the U.K."